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Thursday, April 07, 2016

Mthatha High Court to deliver judgment in the case involving Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Raymond Pani

07 April 2016

The Mthatha High Court in the
Eastern Cape will today deliver judgment in the case involving Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela and the late Nelson Mandela's executors.

In March, a full bench of judges heard her application seeking to be given
rights to former President Mandela's house in Qunu outside Mthatha.

Madikizela-Mandela's lawyers argued that in terms of the customary marriage she
is the rightful owner of the house in Qunu, but Nelson Mandela's executors
opposed her application, arguing that civil marriage supersedes the customary
one.

Her legal representative, Senior Counsel Patrick Mtshaulana, argued that
Madikizela-Mandela is the rightful owner of the house saying though the civil
marriage was dissolved through a divorce, the customary marriage had not been
dissolved.